[tab]Pertaining to this I'd like to mention that we don't employ a server-side backup mechanism anymore. Long time back we used to perform weekly backup of all our members' sites - but this service has been discontinued for a while now owing to some conflict with the quota system.
[/tab]Recently one of our members lost his site to a defacing attack. The hackers got in and completely trashed his site including his MySQL DBs. Unfortunately he didn't have any backups on his own part and neither did we.. hence the whole site was lost and he'd probably have to start from scratch again. Re-desgning pages are still ok - but what hurts most is all the lost posts/content in case you're running a Forum and/or CMS.
[tab]Thus I'd like to stress on the necessity of maintaining regular backups of your site on your own - in case you come under such an attack. To facilitate your backing up job, the cPanel Site Backup option has been enabled to allow you to perform a single-click backup of your whole site. You should do this as often as possible - and at least once every week. Make this into a habit since it's a job that'll take up just a few minutes of your time once a week - but might save you a lot of tears in the long run.
Moreover, most such hacking attempts are usually successful if you're using a weak dictionary based cPanel password - which can be easily cracked using some brute-force password generator/cracker. Thus I'd highly recommend you to keep changing your cPanel passwords from time to time apart from making them as cryptic as possible using combinations of both numerals and upper-case, lower-case letters and if possible punctuation marks. If you find it difficult to remember such passwords, there are plenty of Free and Good Password Managers available for download - where you can store such passwords sitewise for future reference.
Best Regards,
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
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